I am just guessing here but I would imagine most teachers and school based admin began introducing it when they began to have children coming to school (supported by their parents) identifying as the opposite gender. I can see where that would be a dilemma: how does a kindergarten teacher say nothing at all when Jane suddenly becomes Joh…
I am just guessing here but I would imagine most teachers and school based admin began introducing it when they began to have children coming to school (supported by their parents) identifying as the opposite gender. I can see where that would be a dilemma: how does a kindergarten teacher say nothing at all when Jane suddenly becomes John? Children have questions, make comments, and sometimes they do say cruel things. And parents have told stories on the news about sending letters to the parents of kids in their child's class to explain a transition but also of coming in to class and doing a bit of a presentation and a and a session with the other children. Older children who were transitioning sometimes did such presentations on their own. How does a teacher, who several years back may never have dealt with or even heard much about this issue, handle a request to do such a presentation? Decades ago I recall a fellow student's mother coming in to explain his autism diagnosis in an attempt to cut down on bullying and to build empathy and support for her son. I imagine most teachers would have heard of, if not hosted, similar sessions for similar issues (think also a young child with obvious medical issues like a feeding tube or facial deformities) and so would likely have felt it was a kind thing to do when approached by a parent of a child who was transitioning.
Certainly there is ideological influence at the top levels of administration and leadership, especially these days, but I don't believe most teachers are on a quest to indoctrinate. At least not intentionally. I think most teachers do like kids and they want to help them. And with over 10% of kids in higher grades identifying as LGBtq now it is without a doubt a issue that all children are going to run across at school with their peers. So teachers really can't be totally silent in some cases and I think in many cases they really do want to help build empathy and supportive school communities for all. That's not to say their current methods are right, but I don't believe there is a massive conspiracy among the majority of classroom teachers. A few who take their extreme opinions and practices public on TikTok don't generally speak for the majority in any profession.
I think that language about indoctrination can at times be alienating to mainstream audiences with limited knowledge on the issue. They may not know much about trans but most know someone who is a teacher or nurse or social worker and in most cases they know those people are genuinely compassionate and trying to help. So when such people are accused of conspiracy en masse it sounds like radical bull crap and immediately they tune out the rest of the message.
Books like "Call me Max" are being introduced into school curricula. That book tells a child that babies are "assigned" (that makes me nuts) either male or female when born but if the baby could talk they would say "No i'm not" (disagreeing with their assigned gender). This is not a fringe statement. There was a psychologist from UCSF who basically said the same thing to her audience in a conference. It's insanity. Here is the link to that crazy talk.
This gender ideology is being pushed by the medical industry, clinicians, organizations like WPATH, schools , Government etc...it's everywhere. It's not an outlier issue.
I am just guessing here but I would imagine most teachers and school based admin began introducing it when they began to have children coming to school (supported by their parents) identifying as the opposite gender. I can see where that would be a dilemma: how does a kindergarten teacher say nothing at all when Jane suddenly becomes John? Children have questions, make comments, and sometimes they do say cruel things. And parents have told stories on the news about sending letters to the parents of kids in their child's class to explain a transition but also of coming in to class and doing a bit of a presentation and a and a session with the other children. Older children who were transitioning sometimes did such presentations on their own. How does a teacher, who several years back may never have dealt with or even heard much about this issue, handle a request to do such a presentation? Decades ago I recall a fellow student's mother coming in to explain his autism diagnosis in an attempt to cut down on bullying and to build empathy and support for her son. I imagine most teachers would have heard of, if not hosted, similar sessions for similar issues (think also a young child with obvious medical issues like a feeding tube or facial deformities) and so would likely have felt it was a kind thing to do when approached by a parent of a child who was transitioning.
Certainly there is ideological influence at the top levels of administration and leadership, especially these days, but I don't believe most teachers are on a quest to indoctrinate. At least not intentionally. I think most teachers do like kids and they want to help them. And with over 10% of kids in higher grades identifying as LGBtq now it is without a doubt a issue that all children are going to run across at school with their peers. So teachers really can't be totally silent in some cases and I think in many cases they really do want to help build empathy and supportive school communities for all. That's not to say their current methods are right, but I don't believe there is a massive conspiracy among the majority of classroom teachers. A few who take their extreme opinions and practices public on TikTok don't generally speak for the majority in any profession.
I think that language about indoctrination can at times be alienating to mainstream audiences with limited knowledge on the issue. They may not know much about trans but most know someone who is a teacher or nurse or social worker and in most cases they know those people are genuinely compassionate and trying to help. So when such people are accused of conspiracy en masse it sounds like radical bull crap and immediately they tune out the rest of the message.
This is a good read from a teacher's perspective.
https://pitt.substack.com/p/i-am-not-the-same-teacher?s=r
Books like "Call me Max" are being introduced into school curricula. That book tells a child that babies are "assigned" (that makes me nuts) either male or female when born but if the baby could talk they would say "No i'm not" (disagreeing with their assigned gender). This is not a fringe statement. There was a psychologist from UCSF who basically said the same thing to her audience in a conference. It's insanity. Here is the link to that crazy talk.
https://4thwavenow.com/2016/09/29/gender-affirmative-therapist-baby-who-hates-barrettes-trans-boy-questioning-sterilization-of-11-year-olds-same-as-denying-cancer-treatment/
This gender ideology is being pushed by the medical industry, clinicians, organizations like WPATH, schools , Government etc...it's everywhere. It's not an outlier issue.